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The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945

By Peter B. High

Book information

Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780299181307, 0299181308, 9780299181345, 0299181340
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16491448 bytes)
Series
Wisconsin studies in film
Pages
\615
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2021-05-18 04:16:16
1939-1945HistoryJapanMotion pictures and the warWorld War

Description

From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, Imperial Screen is a highly readable account of the realities of cultural life in wartime Japan. High's treatment of the Japanese film world as a microcosm of the entire sphere of Japanese wartime culture demonstrates what happens when conscientious artists and intellectuals become enmeshed in a totalitarian regime. This English language edition is revised and expanded from the original Japanese edition.

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